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hmmm, let me see. Cruises. I live in Anchorage. Summer capital of tourism in South Central Alaska.. . . [snip]. . . Meet us one on one, please!

Wonderful post! The influx of cruisers sounds positively horrid! Reminds me of how we Southerners feel about all the "snowbirds" who head South b/f the cold weather hits, LOL!!!

I would love to see Alaska, one on one. I would like to spend several weeks there, and see the lay of the land, as it were . . .

I love to do Caribbean cruising . . . (sitting on a beach!) . . . but never could quite grasp why anyone would go on an Alaskan cruise . . . seeing Alaska by air - now I can understand that. But on a cruise ship - never made much sense to me.

Sounds crazy but partly because I dont wanna. Secondly, possibly still a little traumatized about my last experience on a ship (being sick) in my younger days. But strangely, Ive done boating, sailing and kayaking with no problem. FUN!

I think cruises can be limiting. We really love the freedom of going and doing what we want to do - we love to drive and discover new out of the way little towns and areas - staying at great little Bed & Breakfast Inns, etc....we don't like to overeat or crowds of people.

A few years ago we went to New England for 3 weeks vacation during the fall - we saw the best fall colors inland and we wandered all over New England while our friends paid for a Fall color cruise and saw very little color at the limited number of seaside ports they visited - they were gone for 10 days and spent the same amount of money we did for a 3 week vacation.

Over 100 million people have contributed to the destruction of port cities in the past ten years.

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